102 min | 4K | Surround 5.1 | Black & White | 2020 | Iran
Festivals and Awards
Festivals and Awards
- 77th Venice Int’l Film Festival (Biennale), 2 – 12 September 2020 (Orizzonti Competition Section), Venice – Italy (Winner of Best Film Award – Winner of FIPRESCI Award – Winner of FAI Foundation Award)
- 11th Middle East Now Film Festival, 6 – 11 October 2020, Florence – Italy
- 65th Valladolid Int’l Film Festival (Seminci), 24 – 31 October 2020, Valladolid – Spain (Official Competition Section)
- 33rd Tokyo Int’l Film Festival, October 31 – November 9, 2020 Tokyo – Japan (World Focus)
- 31st Stockholm Int’l Film Festival, 11 – 22 November 2020, Stockholm – Sweden (Open Zone – Int’l Critics Competition)
- 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, November 13 – 29 2020, Tallinn Estonia (Current Waves)
- 31st Singapore Int’l Film Festival, 26th November – 6th December 2020 (Asian Feature Competition)
- 13th Subversive Int’l Film Festival, November 29th – December 5th 2020, Zagreb – Croatia (Competition Section- Winner of Wild Dreamer Award for Best Feature Film)
- 25th Kerala Int’l Film Festival, 12th – 19th February 2021, Kerala – India (World Cinema)
- 18th Chennai Int’l Film Festival, 18th – 25th February 2021, Chennai – India
- 19th Pune International Film Festival, 4th – 11th March 2021, Pune – India (Global Cinema)
- 11th Yashwant Int’l Film Festival, 13th – 18th March 2021, Mumbai – India
- 45th Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival, April 1st – 12th 2021, Hong Kong (Competition Section, winner of FIREBIRD Award for the Best Film – Winner of Best Actor Award)
- 9th MOOOV Int’l Film Festival, 20th April – 3rd May 2021, Bruges and Turnhout – Belgium (Int’l Competition)
- 14th Lichter Film Fest Frankfurt Int’l, 27th April – 2nd May 2021, Frankfurt – Germany
- 10th Iranian Film Festival Australia, 20 May – 16 June 2021, Perth, Brisbane & Sydney – Australia (Competition Section)
- 24th Shanghai Int’l Film Festival, 11 – 20 June 2021, Shanghai – China (International Panorama)
- 10th Bildrausch Film Festival Basel, June 16th – 20th 2021, Basel – Swiss (International Competition)
- 28th Art Film Fest Kosice, 23rd – 27th June 2021, Bratislava – Slovakia (International Competition)
- 69th Melbourne Int’l Film Festival, 5th – 22nd August 2021, Melbourne – Australia
- 21st New Horizons Int’l Film Festival, 12th – 22nd August 2021, Warsaw – Poland (Main Competition)
- The Vancouver Cinematheque, 9th – 12th and 15th September 2021, Vancouver – Canada
- 7th Bogota Int’l Film Festival, 7th – 15th October 2021, Bogota – Colombia (Winner of Youth Award)
- 15th Asian Film Awards, 8th October 2021, Busan – Korea (Winner of Best Cinematography Award)
- 29th Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, 28 October – 7 November 2021, Toronto – Canada
- 32nd Carthage Film Festival, October 30 – November 6 2021, Carthage – Tunisia (World Cinema)
- 19th Inverness Film Festival, November 5th – 11th 2021, Inverness – Scotland
- 2nd Vitré New Persian Images Film Festival, 10th – 14th November 2021, Vitre – France (Competition Section, winner of Best Film Award and Artistic & Cultural Education Award)
- 19th Pune International Film Festival, 2nd – 9th December 2021, Pune – India (Global Cinema)
- 11th Yashwant Int’l Film Festival, 10th – 16th December 2021, Mumbai – India
- 8th Silk Road Int’l Film Festival, 8th – 12th December 2021, Fu Zhou – China
- National Museum of Asian Art – Smithsonian Institution, 14th – 30th January 2022, Washington DC – Maryland and Virginia, USA
- 32nd Tromso Int’l Film Festival, 17th – 23rd January 2022, Tromso – Norway (Winner of The Norwegian Peace Film Award)
- UCLA Film & Television Archive, April 29th – May 8th 2022, LA – USA
Review:
Venice 2020 review: The Wasteland – icsfilm.org
Cast and Crew
Synopsis
Bio Filmography
Cast and Crew
THE WASTELAND
(Dashte khamoush)- Writer & Director: Ahmad Bahrami
- Director of Photography: Masoud Amini Tirani
- Editor: Sahar Yavari
- Music: Foad Ghahremani
- Sound Recorder: Hadi Razavian
- Cast: Ali Bagheri, Farrokh Nemati, Mehdi Nassaj, Majid Farhang, Mahdieh Nassaj
- Producer: Saeed Bashiri
Synopsis
A remote brick manufacture factory produces bricks in an ancient way. Many families with different ethnicities work in the factory and the boss seems to hold the key to solving their problems. Forty-year-old Lotfollah, who has been born on-site, is the factory supervisor and acts as go-between for the workers and the boss.
Boss has Lotfollah gathered all the workers in front of his office. He wants to talk to them about the shutdown of the factory. All matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar unharmed, the woman he has been in love with for a long time.
Bio Filmography
Born in 1972 in Shahryar – Iran, Ahmad Bahrami holds a bachelor’s degree in directing cinema. He has made few short films before directing long-length films. “The Wasteland” is the second feature film he has written and directed.
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